Adapter Body for Precise Angular Positioning of Light Emitting Grains
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for installing light emitting grains in handmade accessories with shell-like housings face challenges in maintaining precise angular positions and securing the optical axis, leading to potential breakage and uneven brightness, which degrades the esthetic and functional values of the accessories.
Innovation Solution
A mold with a pick slot and an adapter body with a transpose hole are used to secure the light emitting grain at precise angular positions, ensuring alignment and strong adhesion through a plastic cementing agent, thereby stabilizing the optical axis and enhancing the mechanical binding force.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a hole is formed on the shell-like housing to install the light emitting grain, then the light emitting grain can be installed, but the housing is liable to breakage caused by stress at the contact area due to the thin material
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces an adapter body as a separate component that interfaces between the light emitting grain and the shell-like housing. This segmentation allows the adapter body to bear the mechanical stress of installation and support, preventing stress concentration on the thin shell-like housing that would cause breakage.
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter body serves as an intermediary component between the light emitting grain and the shell-like housing. It provides a robust mounting structure with sufficient wall height to support the light emitting grain's optical axis while distributing mechanical stresses away from the fragile shell-like housing.
2Length of moving object
If the hole inner wall height is extremely small due to thin shell material, then the housing remains thin and lightweight, but the axis angle of the light emitting grain cannot be supported
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter body extends the available space in the radial dimension outward from the shell-like housing surface. This creates sufficient vertical space within the adapter body to properly support the light emitting grain's optical axis at the required angular position, overcoming the limitation of the thin shell material.
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter body acts as an intermediary structure that provides the necessary dimensional space for angular positioning. It includes features like positioning tenons and transverse holes that enable precise angular alignment of the light emitting grain while the thin shell-like housing maintains its lightweight properties.
3Ease of manufacture
If multiple light emitting grains are provided to imitate vehicle headlights or animal appearance, then the esthetic value is enhanced, but the optical axes may be non-parallel or uneven in brightness, degrading functional esthetic values
Solution Approach 1:
Each light emitting grain is equipped with its own adapter body, allowing independent positioning and angular adjustment. This segmentation enables each grain to be precisely oriented to achieve parallel optical axes or specific angular arrangements required for realistic headlight simulation or animal appearance, ensuring uniform brightness and proper alignment.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This method allows for precise angular positioning and secure installation of light emitting grains, ensuring consistent and realistic illumination effects while preventing breakage and improving the overall esthetic and functional performance of the accessories.
Implementation Method 1
a plastic cementing agent is first manually applied at a surface of a mold and a fiber cloth is then covered thereon to yield a combined and solid structure
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AI summary
A securing structure for a light emitting element at a surface of a shell-like accessory and a manufacturing method for the securing structure are provided. According to an appearance of a handmade accessory, a mold, a positioning tenon and an adapter body are provided. The adapter body is supported and secured by combining the positioning tenon at the mold. With repeated applying operations, a plastic cementing agent is applied at an outer round surface of the adapter body to provide a combining effect. The mold and the positioning tenon are removed after the plastic cementing agent is set and shaped. Thus, using an axis and structure support of the adapter body, the light emitting grain installed is capable of securing an angular position of its optical axis as well as enhancing the combining strength.